Motorcycles

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Did you know that more than 100 million Americans live in pain? Among those Americans are office workers putting themselves in danger of further discomfort by ignoring their pain. While physical activity is important to pain prevention, a new survey from the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) found that more than 70 percent of office workers spend 5+ hours sitting at their desks each day. And 2 in 5 office workers would not consider getting up from their desks if they needed to talk to a colleague.pain chronic

Chronic pain can make it more difficult for you to participate in day-to-day activities at work or at home, and can even hinder work performance.

Luckily, it only takes 60 seconds to begin to break through your pain by watching the AOA’s video about how to avoid and prevent pain in the workplace. The video featuring Rob Danoff, DO, an AOA board-certified family physician, tells you how to position yourself at your desk to eliminate unnecessary strain on your body while at work.

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of benloveforyou for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Did you know that more than 100 million Americans live in pain? Among those Americans are office workers putting themselves in danger of further discomfort by ignoring their pain. While physical activity is important to pain prevention, a new survey from the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) found that more than 70 percent of office workers spend 5+ hours sitting at their desks each day. And 2 in 5 office workers would not consider getting up from their desks if they needed to talk to a colleague.

Chronic pain can make it more difficult for you to participate in day-to-day activities at work or at home, and can even hinder work performance.Break Through Your Pain

Luckily, it only takes 60 seconds to begin to break through your pain by watching the AOA’s video about how to avoid and prevent pain in the workplace. The video featuring Rob Danoff, DO, an AOA board-certified family physician, tells you how to position yourself at your desk to eliminate unnecessary strain on your body while at work.

Most custom motorcycles have an interesting story behind them, but the tale behind this 1972 Honda CB350 is more interesting than most. I’m not being entirely impartial here, though—this bike was inspired by the often-heated comments on Bike EXIF. ‘The Brat’ was built by reader Rex Havoc and his friend Brad, who run a small custom workshop in Perth, Australia, called Garage Project Motorcycles. “I would send messages to Brad telling him to check out the latest bike on your site,” says Rex, “and then we would laugh at some of the comments. One day I’d had enough. So in the heat of the moment, I replied to someone and said, ‘show us your build or GTFO’. He emailed me and suggested I do the same, in equally colorful language.” So Rex bought a CB350 for $1,600 from eBay and got started.

Whenever he and Brad had to choose a part, a color or make a design decision, “We would ask ourselves ‘what would the commentators say on Bike EXIF?’.” Which explains the pipe wrap, the vintage-style Firestone tires, drum brakes and minimal suspension travel. Not to mention the velocity stacks, the straight-through exhaust, the flat seat with no bum stop, the asymmetrical tank paint and the “silly speedo design”.

On a more serious note, this CB350 suits its purpose very well. It’s designed for cruising around the roads of Perth, which are mostly flat, straight and well-surfaced. It’ll be ridden just a few times a month in good weather, and it doesn’t need a battery because it’s easy to kick start.

At the All Japanese Motorcycle Show in Perth, ‘The Brat’ picked up second place. I guess that’s proof that not everyone will hate this bike. Do you?

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It’s not often we get to show a custom that has been built with practicality in mind. But this Honda CL400 has been tweaked for London streets, offering easy commuting with a strong dash of style. The man behind the project is Will Starritt of the motorcycle gear shop Urban Rider: “We wanted to create a very narrow bike ideal for filtering. Something light and maneuverable but also able to take a pillion. And with practical lights and tyres.”

The Honda CL400 is easy to come by in England, and it’s a good starting point. It’s a simple design with an air-cooled 387cc single, and cheap to maintain. The stock CL400 has a low dry weight of 140 kg (308 lbs), but Urban Rider has taken this down even further to about 122 kg (270 lbs). To put that into perspective, this road-legal CL400 is less than half the weight of a Harley Sportster 883.

Every few months I receive word of a new bike from the New Hampshire workshop ofWalt Siegl. And it’s always a treat to behold—like this custom Ducati 900SS, nicknamed the ‘Riviera Ducati’. Walt’s been working night and day on it for four months now, and it’s a beauty. Power comes from a torquey 900SS air-cooled V-twin, upgraded from 904 to 944 cc with a big bore kit (and given a further boost with a carburetor upgrade to 39 mm flat slides). Walt is an old-school craftsman of many abilities, so he also built the frame—using .065″ chromoly steel—and the carbon/kevlar fuel tank, which is influenced by early NCR Ducati bikes.

Other unique parts include the stainless steel exhaust system and the rearsets, which are fashioned from 7075 aluminum alloy. Up front are Triumph forks, chosen for their increased offset compared to Ducati/Showa items. They’re re-valved and fitted with new springs to counteract the lighter weight of the bike. The swingarm is an aluminum Ducati item adapted to suit an Öhlins twin-shock setup, and the wheels are Brembo-made Marchesinis from a Ducati 999. (The rear hub and cush drive have been modified to align the final drive.) The instrument is a simple but classy combined speedometer and tachometer from Motogadget.

The result is compact and muscular, with a dash of retro superbike aesthetics and café racer styling. Does a Ducati 900SS get any better than this?

There’s nothing like a barn find to get the motorcycling juices flowing, and this Ducati 750 Super Sport is one of the best. The bike was discovered in Belgium in 2009, after sitting in a shed for 15 years. It’s now been resurrected by Harné Heuvelman of the Dutch specialist Back To Classics, and it’s as close to vintage perfection as you can get.

Even better, it’s one of the first 750 Super Sports built in 1976. Production started with frame number 912, and this is 918. Fixed to the frame was a small copper plate with the emblem of Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travelers. “This suggests the bike was delivered to a southern European catholic nation,” says Heuvelman. “Maybe Italy, where it was probably blessed by the local priest.”

Anvil Motociclette is the kind of shop that is catching the attention of younger riders in mainland Europe. Their designs are raw and uncompromising, and guaranteed to stop the traffic. This 1979 Honda CB500 custom is typical: It’s low and rakish, stripped to the basics and ready for action.

Anvil is run by San Marco Filios and Alessandro Phonz Fontanesi, both in their early 30s and living in Milan. They’ve both been passionate riders since childhood, starting on motocross bikes. Today they focus on road bikes, and as you’d expect from a workshop based in Italy’s design capital, their creations have a strong dash of style.